The African Methodist Episcopal Church held its General Conference Commission and Convo XV last month (December 12-14) at the Gaylord Opryland Resort and Convention Center in Nashville. The event brought more than 550 AME officials, delegates, observers and vendors to the conference.

The event served as a forerunner for the General Conference to be held June 27-July 4 at the Opryland Resort. Approximately 30,000 attendees are expected to attend the...Read More

As we celebrate Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s legacy this week, we need to focus on how we are living out his legacy in our dreams. Many of us do not dream anymore. We have forgotten about the dreams we had as children or before we had children. We need to dream and dream big. Dr. King had an enormous dream—racial equality, equal access to opportunities, and an outpouring of service to all of humanity. Dr. King dreamed big. Our dreams, in the words of Langston Hughes, are deferred. They have “dried up like a raisin in the sun.”

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"And he told them a parable to the effect that they ought always to pray and not loose heart. He said, “In a certain city there was a judge who neither feared God nor regarded man; and there was a widow in that city who kept coming to him and saying ‘Vindicate me against my adversary.’ For a while he refused; but afterwards he said to himself, ‘Though I neither fear God nor regard man, yet because this widow bothers me, I will vindicate her, or she will wear me out by her continual coming.’” And the Lord said, “Hear what the unrighteous judge says. And will not God vindicate his elect, who cry to him day and...Read More